Suvi Salmenniemi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 232029 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Suvi Salmenniemi |
| PRENOMES | Suvi |
| SOBRENOME | Salmenniemi |
| ASSINATURA | SALMENNIEMI S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9339-8673 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 132 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The crisis of social reproduction and therapeutic self-care
The article examines therapeutic self-care as a practice of social reproduction. It argues that therapeutic self-care sits at the heart of the systemic crisis materialising from the contradicting logics between capital accumulation and social reproduction. The article contributes to social reproduction feminism by showing the centrality of therapeutic self-care for reproducing capacity to labour and maintaining life as such. It also contributes t…
Revisiting the depoliticisation thesis
The increasing cultural prevalence and appeal of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) have raised concerns about its potential depoliticising effects. Due to its focus on the self, CAM is believed to cultivate individualism and orient transformative energies towards self-improvement rather than the collective struggle for social justice. However, despite these concerns, few quantitative studies have examined CAM from the perspective of th…
Transformations and tensions in sustainability work
A global sustainability transformation called by The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has important implications for the organisation of production, and structures and processes of work. However, recent scholarship has raised a need to make sense of how everyday work processes are changing to meet sustainability demands and of the factors that may facilitate or hinder this development. Therefore, this article focuses on the …
Work in sustainability crisis
The structures and meanings of work are a central question in the sustainability crisis. However, scholars have recently voiced concerns about the limited amount of research on those topics. In responding to this lacuna, this article explores how sustainability professionals in business organisations make sense of work and its transformation towards sustainability, how sustainability demands are seen as challenging existing business and managemen…
Rethinking critical theory
Political Imagination and Social Change
This Introduction to the special issue 'Political Imagination and Social Change' addresses the role of political imagination for transformative politics and social change. It argues that sociology has a critical role to play in analysing, theorising, and facilitating political imagination and contributing to reinvigorating the collective political imagination by offering insights to envisaging alternative social formations and destabilising conve…
Political Imagination and Utopian Pedagogy
Peer reviewed
Everyday utopias and social reproduction
This article analyses reproductive labour in everyday utopias. Everyday utopias refer to spaces and practices that experiment with alternative forms of life and create new social imaginaries. Drawing on ethnographic research in three everyday utopias in Finland, the article argues that labour plays a key role in transformative politics by prefiguring socially and ecologically sustainable forms of life not conducive to capitalist logic. The articl…
Mikä tahansa on mahdollista tässä talossa”
Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan arkipäivän utopioita ja niiden materiaalisia järjestyksiä. Arkipäivän utopioilla viitataan yhteisöihin, joissa eletään todeksi vaihtoehtoisia ja kestävämpiä elämänmuotoja. Artikkeli tutkii tällaisia yhteisöjä etnografisesti kahden tapausesimerkin, Mustarinda ry:n ja Oranssi ry:n, kautta. Artikkeli osoittaa, että arkipäivän utopioille ominainen vaihtoehtoiseen tulevaisuuteen kurottautuminen on vahvasti materian, er…
Kiinnittävät ja kuluttavat siteet
Reconfiguring health knowledges? Contemporary modes of self-care as ‘everyday fringe medicine’
The contestation of expertise is perhaps nowhere more pronounced than in the field of health and well-being, on which this article focuses. A multitude of practices and communities that stand in contentious relationships with established forms of medical expertise and promote personalised modes of self-care have proliferated across Euro-American societies. Drawing on multi-sited ethnography in three domains – body–mind–spirit therapies, vaccine h…
Treading the tightrope of femininity
This article examines the therapeutic self-transformation process in a self-help group in Russia. Drawing on participant observation and interviews, and engaging with debates on therapeutic technologies and the transformation of gender relations, it explores how the self-help group shapes how participants come to understand and act upon themselves. It shows that the process of self-transformation is profoundly gendered, problematising femininity …
Therapeutic politics
This article addresses forms of political engagement in the therapeutic field. Drawing on ethnographic research on popular psychology self-help, alternative and complementary health practices and new spiritualities, the paper takes issue with the dominant interpretation of the therapeutic as a depoliticizing force. Although this interpretation captures important facets of the phenomenon, the paper suggests that something more complex is afoot. It…
Self-help as a glocalised therapeutic assemblage
This article analyses how therapeutic self-help discourse, as a global form, has been domesticated in contemporary Russia. It proposes the concept of a glocalised therapeutic assemblage to capture the dynamics through which a range of transnational and historical elements are pulled together in self-help. Drawing on analysis of bestselling self-help books and interviews with their readers, the article addresses the domestication and transformatio…
We can't live without beliefs
Therapeutic technologies of happiness, emotional wellbeing and self-improvement are a highly influential cultural phenomenon and a rapidly growing business worldwide; yet little is known of the motivations for engaging with these technologies. This article addresses this gap by investigating how therapeutic engagements are experienced and what participants hope to gain from them. Therapeutic technologies are conceived as psychologically informed …
Women without Men
Jennifer Utrata explores cultural meanings and experiences of single motherhood in contemporary Russia. The growth of single-parent families is, as she notes, one of the most profound transformations of family life globally. She uses the Russian case to shed light on this transformation and to advance sociological theorization on single motherhood and family dynamics in contemporary societies. She places her findings in dialogue with studies from…
Rethinking Class in Russia
Contents: Introduction: rethinking class in Russia, Suvi Salmenniemi Class analysis in the USSR and contemporary Russia, Harri Melin and Suvi Salmenniemi Part I Class in Public Discourses: Business for pleasure: elite women in the Russian popular media, Saara Ratilainen Post-Soviet khoziain: class, self and morality in Russian self-help literature, Suvi Salmenniemi Doing class in social welfare discourses: 'unfortunate families' in Russia, Elena …
Decolonizing knowledge
This article argues that critiques of neoliberalism tend to rely on and reproduce the coloniality of knowledge. It analyzes how recent academic scholarship has mobilized the notion of neoliberalism to make sense of postsocialist transformations and identifies in it an epistemological meta-geography that reproduces the three-worlds scheme, a specific Cold War era articulation of the colonial matrix of power. The article traces various ways in whic…
The biopolitics of precarity and the self
This Special Issue explores the biopolitics of precarity and the self. In so doing, its aim is to critically examine the changing landscape of technologies of the self and techniques of domination in late capitalism. It brings Foucault’s work on biopolitics into conversation with recent feminist, Marxist, postcolonial, disability and queer scholarship on precarity. In a feminist tradition of thinking through relationality and ethics, this Special…
New Heroines of Labour
In recent years, post-feminism has become an important element of popular media culture and the object of feminist cultural critique. This article explores how post-feminism is domesticated in Russia through popular self-help literature aimed at a female audience. Drawing on a close reading of self-help texts by three best-selling Russian authors, the article examines how post-feminism is made intelligible to the Russian audience and how it artic…
Reading self-help literature inRussia
Self-help has become a booming business over the past decades and an increasingly visible part of popular media culture worldwide. The paper analyzes the arrival and effects of this cultural technology in post-SovietRussia after more than seventy years of socialism. It examines how Russians are engaging with popular psychology self-help as a technology of the self and how they are making it meaningful in their lives. Drawing on a set of one-to-on…
The making of civil society in Russia
This article addresses the logic of the civic field in Russia as it unfolded during the 1990s and early 2000s. It engages with Bourdieu's theory of practice to explain how and why this field came to be symbolically associated with a particular notion of femininity, and how and why educated women came to occupy a particularly seminal position in it. By drawing on extensive fieldwork on civic activism and a rich body of secondary literature the art…
Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia. Vocational Youth in Transition
Between Business and Byt
This article contributes to the study of women's entrepreneurship in transition economies by examining Russian self-employed women's experiences and interpretations of gender in the context of entrepreneurship. It traces how gender articulates the opportunities for and the constraints on entrepreneurial activities in Russian society. As such, this article engages in the theoretical discussion of gendered patterns of entrepreneurship. The article …
Democratization and Gender in Contemporary Russia
This book examines civic activism, democratization and gender in contemporary Russian society. It describes the character and central organizing principles of Russian democratic civic life, considering how it has developed since the Soviet period, and analyzing the goals and identities of important civic groups - including trade unions - and the meanings they have acquired in the context of wider Russian society. In particular, Suvi Salmenniemi i…
Reading self-help literature inRussia
Self-help has become a booming business over the past decades and an increasingly visible part of popular media culture worldwide. The paper analyzes the arrival and effects of this cultural technology in post-SovietRussia after more than seventy years of socialism. It examines how Russians are engaging with popular psychology self-help as a technology of the self and how they are making it meaningful in their lives. Drawing on a set of one-to-on…
Therapeutic politics
This article addresses forms of political engagement in the therapeutic field. Drawing on ethnographic research on popular psychology self-help, alternative and complementary health practices and new spiritualities, the paper takes issue with the dominant interpretation of the therapeutic as a depoliticizing force. Although this interpretation captures important facets of the phenomenon, the paper suggests that something more complex is afoot. It…
Rethinking Class in Russia
Contents: Introduction: rethinking class in Russia, Suvi Salmenniemi Class analysis in the USSR and contemporary Russia, Harri Melin and Suvi Salmenniemi Part I Class in Public Discourses: Business for pleasure: elite women in the Russian popular media, Saara Ratilainen Post-Soviet khoziain: class, self and morality in Russian self-help literature, Suvi Salmenniemi Doing class in social welfare discourses: 'unfortunate families' in Russia, Elena …
The biopolitics of precarity and the self
This Special Issue explores the biopolitics of precarity and the self. In so doing, its aim is to critically examine the changing landscape of technologies of the self and techniques of domination in late capitalism. It brings Foucault’s work on biopolitics into conversation with recent feminist, Marxist, postcolonial, disability and queer scholarship on precarity. In a feminist tradition of thinking through relationality and ethics, this Special…
New Heroines of Labour
In recent years, post-feminism has become an important element of popular media culture and the object of feminist cultural critique. This article explores how post-feminism is domesticated in Russia through popular self-help literature aimed at a female audience. Drawing on a close reading of self-help texts by three best-selling Russian authors, the article examines how post-feminism is made intelligible to the Russian audience and how it artic…
Everyday utopias and social reproduction
This article analyses reproductive labour in everyday utopias. Everyday utopias refer to spaces and practices that experiment with alternative forms of life and create new social imaginaries. Drawing on ethnographic research in three everyday utopias in Finland, the article argues that labour plays a key role in transformative politics by prefiguring socially and ecologically sustainable forms of life not conducive to capitalist logic. The articl…
Self-help as a glocalised therapeutic assemblage
This article analyses how therapeutic self-help discourse, as a global form, has been domesticated in contemporary Russia. It proposes the concept of a glocalised therapeutic assemblage to capture the dynamics through which a range of transnational and historical elements are pulled together in self-help. Drawing on analysis of bestselling self-help books and interviews with their readers, the article addresses the domestication and transformatio…
Civic Activity - Feminine Activity
The article examines the interconnections between gender, civil society and political citizenship in contemporary Russia. It asks how masculinity, femininity and their interrelationships are represented in the context of socio-political activity and what kind of gendered agency these representations construct. The analysis is based on interviews with socially and politically active persons in Central Russia. The main argument in the article is th…
We can't live without beliefs
Therapeutic technologies of happiness, emotional wellbeing and self-improvement are a highly influential cultural phenomenon and a rapidly growing business worldwide; yet little is known of the motivations for engaging with these technologies. This article addresses this gap by investigating how therapeutic engagements are experienced and what participants hope to gain from them. Therapeutic technologies are conceived as psychologically informed …
Decolonizing knowledge
This article argues that critiques of neoliberalism tend to rely on and reproduce the coloniality of knowledge. It analyzes how recent academic scholarship has mobilized the notion of neoliberalism to make sense of postsocialist transformations and identifies in it an epistemological meta-geography that reproduces the three-worlds scheme, a specific Cold War era articulation of the colonial matrix of power. The article traces various ways in whic…
Between Business and Byt
This article contributes to the study of women's entrepreneurship in transition economies by examining Russian self-employed women's experiences and interpretations of gender in the context of entrepreneurship. It traces how gender articulates the opportunities for and the constraints on entrepreneurial activities in Russian society. As such, this article engages in the theoretical discussion of gendered patterns of entrepreneurship. The article …
Political Imagination and Utopian Pedagogy
Peer reviewed
The making of civil society in Russia
This article addresses the logic of the civic field in Russia as it unfolded during the 1990s and early 2000s. It engages with Bourdieu's theory of practice to explain how and why this field came to be symbolically associated with a particular notion of femininity, and how and why educated women came to occupy a particularly seminal position in it. By drawing on extensive fieldwork on civic activism and a rich body of secondary literature the art…
Political Imagination and Social Change
This Introduction to the special issue 'Political Imagination and Social Change' addresses the role of political imagination for transformative politics and social change. It argues that sociology has a critical role to play in analysing, theorising, and facilitating political imagination and contributing to reinvigorating the collective political imagination by offering insights to envisaging alternative social formations and destabilising conve…
Civic Activity - Feminine Activity
The article examines the interconnections between gender, civil society and political citizenship in contemporary Russia. It asks how masculinity, femininity and their interrelationships are represented in the context of socio-political activity and what kind of gendered agency these representations construct. The analysis is based on interviews with socially and politically active persons in Central Russia. The main argument in the article is th…
Democratization and Gender in Contemporary Russia
This book examines civic activism, democratization and gender in contemporary Russian society. It describes the character and central organizing principles of Russian democratic civic life, considering how it has developed since the Soviet period, and analyzing the goals and identities of important civic groups - including trade unions - and the meanings they have acquired in the context of wider Russian society. In particular, Suvi Salmenniemi i…
Democratization and Gender in Contemporary Russia
Between Business and Byt
This article contributes to the study of women's entrepreneurship in transition economies by examining Russian self-employed women's experiences and interpretations of gender in the context of entrepreneurship. It traces how gender articulates the opportunities for and the constraints on entrepreneurial activities in Russian society. As such, this article engages in the theoretical discussion of gendered patterns of entrepreneurship. The article …
Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia. Vocational Youth in Transition
Reading self-help literature inRussia
Self-help has become a booming business over the past decades and an increasingly visible part of popular media culture worldwide. The paper analyzes the arrival and effects of this cultural technology in post-SovietRussia after more than seventy years of socialism. It examines how Russians are engaging with popular psychology self-help as a technology of the self and how they are making it meaningful in their lives. Drawing on a set of one-to-on…
The making of civil society in Russia
This article addresses the logic of the civic field in Russia as it unfolded during the 1990s and early 2000s. It engages with Bourdieu's theory of practice to explain how and why this field came to be symbolically associated with a particular notion of femininity, and how and why educated women came to occupy a particularly seminal position in it. By drawing on extensive fieldwork on civic activism and a rich body of secondary literature the art…
The biopolitics of precarity and the self
This Special Issue explores the biopolitics of precarity and the self. In so doing, its aim is to critically examine the changing landscape of technologies of the self and techniques of domination in late capitalism. It brings Foucault’s work on biopolitics into conversation with recent feminist, Marxist, postcolonial, disability and queer scholarship on precarity. In a feminist tradition of thinking through relationality and ethics, this Special…
New Heroines of Labour
In recent years, post-feminism has become an important element of popular media culture and the object of feminist cultural critique. This article explores how post-feminism is domesticated in Russia through popular self-help literature aimed at a female audience. Drawing on a close reading of self-help texts by three best-selling Russian authors, the article examines how post-feminism is made intelligible to the Russian audience and how it artic…
Rethinking Class in Russia
Contents: Introduction: rethinking class in Russia, Suvi Salmenniemi Class analysis in the USSR and contemporary Russia, Harri Melin and Suvi Salmenniemi Part I Class in Public Discourses: Business for pleasure: elite women in the Russian popular media, Saara Ratilainen Post-Soviet khoziain: class, self and morality in Russian self-help literature, Suvi Salmenniemi Doing class in social welfare discourses: 'unfortunate families' in Russia, Elena …
Decolonizing knowledge
This article argues that critiques of neoliberalism tend to rely on and reproduce the coloniality of knowledge. It analyzes how recent academic scholarship has mobilized the notion of neoliberalism to make sense of postsocialist transformations and identifies in it an epistemological meta-geography that reproduces the three-worlds scheme, a specific Cold War era articulation of the colonial matrix of power. The article traces various ways in whic…
Self-help as a glocalised therapeutic assemblage
This article analyses how therapeutic self-help discourse, as a global form, has been domesticated in contemporary Russia. It proposes the concept of a glocalised therapeutic assemblage to capture the dynamics through which a range of transnational and historical elements are pulled together in self-help. Drawing on analysis of bestselling self-help books and interviews with their readers, the article addresses the domestication and transformatio…
We can't live without beliefs
Therapeutic technologies of happiness, emotional wellbeing and self-improvement are a highly influential cultural phenomenon and a rapidly growing business worldwide; yet little is known of the motivations for engaging with these technologies. This article addresses this gap by investigating how therapeutic engagements are experienced and what participants hope to gain from them. Therapeutic technologies are conceived as psychologically informed …
Women without Men
Jennifer Utrata explores cultural meanings and experiences of single motherhood in contemporary Russia. The growth of single-parent families is, as she notes, one of the most profound transformations of family life globally. She uses the Russian case to shed light on this transformation and to advance sociological theorization on single motherhood and family dynamics in contemporary societies. She places her findings in dialogue with studies from…
Treading the tightrope of femininity
This article examines the therapeutic self-transformation process in a self-help group in Russia. Drawing on participant observation and interviews, and engaging with debates on therapeutic technologies and the transformation of gender relations, it explores how the self-help group shapes how participants come to understand and act upon themselves. It shows that the process of self-transformation is profoundly gendered, problematising femininity …
Therapeutic politics
This article addresses forms of political engagement in the therapeutic field. Drawing on ethnographic research on popular psychology self-help, alternative and complementary health practices and new spiritualities, the paper takes issue with the dominant interpretation of the therapeutic as a depoliticizing force. Although this interpretation captures important facets of the phenomenon, the paper suggests that something more complex is afoot. It…
Reconfiguring health knowledges? Contemporary modes of self-care as ‘everyday fringe medicine’
The contestation of expertise is perhaps nowhere more pronounced than in the field of health and well-being, on which this article focuses. A multitude of practices and communities that stand in contentious relationships with established forms of medical expertise and promote personalised modes of self-care have proliferated across Euro-American societies. Drawing on multi-sited ethnography in three domains – body–mind–spirit therapies, vaccine h…
Kiinnittävät ja kuluttavat siteet
Mikä tahansa on mahdollista tässä talossa”
Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan arkipäivän utopioita ja niiden materiaalisia järjestyksiä. Arkipäivän utopioilla viitataan yhteisöihin, joissa eletään todeksi vaihtoehtoisia ja kestävämpiä elämänmuotoja. Artikkeli tutkii tällaisia yhteisöjä etnografisesti kahden tapausesimerkin, Mustarinda ry:n ja Oranssi ry:n, kautta. Artikkeli osoittaa, että arkipäivän utopioille ominainen vaihtoehtoiseen tulevaisuuteen kurottautuminen on vahvasti materian, er…
Political Imagination and Utopian Pedagogy
Peer reviewed
Everyday utopias and social reproduction
This article analyses reproductive labour in everyday utopias. Everyday utopias refer to spaces and practices that experiment with alternative forms of life and create new social imaginaries. Drawing on ethnographic research in three everyday utopias in Finland, the article argues that labour plays a key role in transformative politics by prefiguring socially and ecologically sustainable forms of life not conducive to capitalist logic. The articl…
Transformations and tensions in sustainability work
A global sustainability transformation called by The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has important implications for the organisation of production, and structures and processes of work. However, recent scholarship has raised a need to make sense of how everyday work processes are changing to meet sustainability demands and of the factors that may facilitate or hinder this development. Therefore, this article focuses on the …
Work in sustainability crisis
The structures and meanings of work are a central question in the sustainability crisis. However, scholars have recently voiced concerns about the limited amount of research on those topics. In responding to this lacuna, this article explores how sustainability professionals in business organisations make sense of work and its transformation towards sustainability, how sustainability demands are seen as challenging existing business and managemen…
Rethinking critical theory
Political Imagination and Social Change
This Introduction to the special issue 'Political Imagination and Social Change' addresses the role of political imagination for transformative politics and social change. It argues that sociology has a critical role to play in analysing, theorising, and facilitating political imagination and contributing to reinvigorating the collective political imagination by offering insights to envisaging alternative social formations and destabilising conve…
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